Camborne Trevithick Day

<BODY leftmargin="0" topmargin="8"> <a name="PageTop"></a> <center>  <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" width="570"> <tr><td height="200" width="120" align="center" valign="middle"> <img src="images/ani/ctdani1.gif" width="220" alt="Camborne Trevithick-Day" height="120" border="0"></td> <td height="200" align="center" valign="middle"> <font class="IntroTxt1">  Camborne Trevithick-Day is an annual day of celebration for the town of Camborne in Cornwall, United Kingdom, on the last Saturday in April  </font></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" width="570" align="left" valign="middle"> <font class="IntroTxt"> <br>  Attractions include;  <br> </font></td></tr> </table> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" width="570"> <tr><td width="570" align="left" valign="middle">  <br><ul> <font class="NormalTxt"><li>Model Exhibitions <li>Vintage Vehicles <li>Local school children in the Bal Maidens and Miners Dance led by Camborne Town Band <li>Performances by Local Male Voice Choirs <li>Concerts by Camborne Town Band and other local bands </font><br><br></ul> </td> <td width="240" align="center" valign="middle"> <img src="images/engines.jpg" width="230" height="145" border="0" alt="engines"> </td></tr><tr></table> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" width="570"> <tr><td width="240" align="center" valign="middle"> <img src="images/parade.jpg" width="150" height="228" border="0" alt="parade"></td> <td width="330" align="left" valign="middle"> <font class="NormalTxt"><ul> <li>Cornish Music and Dance Festival <li>Street Entertainers <li>Flower Festival <li>Steam Engines and Stationary Engines <li>Fair Ground Rides <li>Market Stalls <li>The Trevithick's Dance <li>Yhe Steam Engine Parade </ul></font> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><br><br> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" width="570"> <tr><td colspan="2" width="570" align="left" valign="middle"> <font class="NormalTxt">  <center><img src="borders/hr.gif" width="560" height="1"></center><br><br> <center><font class="IntroTxt">RICHARD TREVITHICK</font><br> <br></center> <font class="SmallTxt">Richard Trevithick (1771 - 1832) was born within sight of Dolcoath Mine, where his father was a Captain.   He grew up in the Camborne area, which was deeply involved in the innovations of the budding industrial revolution.  Trevithick became a mine engineer and pioneered the use of controversial high pressure pumping engines for Cornish copper and tin mines.   He was prolific with his ideas and inventions, leaving a legacy of a number of patents covering diverse fields, and is well known locally for his "Camborne road carriage", nick-named the "Puffin Devil", which made successful passenger-carrying trials in 1801.   Many consider it to be the first auto-mobile.   Trevithick was also the first to successfully run a steam-powered engine pulling carriages on rails at Pennydarren, South Wales, in 1804.   He followed this with a try at an entrepreneurial venture of a passenger carrying circular railway in London, called the "Catch-me-who-can".   Trevithick's keen mind poured out inventions at an astonishing rate, but he did not achieve due recognition for his accomplishments.   His experiments with steam carriages failed to arouse any great enthusiasm and proved quite profitless to him.   In 1816 Trevithick left to spent some years in Peru working on projects linked with the silver mines, before returning to Cornwall in 1827, where he found that the high-pressure engine had become widely accepted, and was being further developed for railways and ships.  He died in Dartford, Kent, while working on a project to develop a reaction turbine.  Trevithick married Jane Harvey, whose family owned a major foundry in nearby Hayle, and his custom helped set up Holmans Foundry in Camborne, which became a major local employer and engineering base and still survives today as CompAir.   Camborne is justly proud of Trevithick, and his contribution towards the technology that we take for granted today. </font><br><br> <CENTER><a class="BigLink" href="#trevithick"> Brief History of Richard Trevithick </a></CENTER><br> <a name="ae"></a><br> <center> <img src="images/kerrier photos/square.jpg" width="450" height="112" border="0" alt="square.jpg - image taken from the slide photographed by Steve Tanner / Kerrier District Council"><br><center><br><br> <img src="borders/hr.gif" width="560" height="1"></center><br> <font class="IntroTxt">CAMBORNE TREVITHICK-DAY</font></center><br> <br> Camborne Trevithick-Day was established in 1983, and the community event has quickly become an important part of the Cornish calendar, attracting some 25,000 to 30,000 visitors.   The aim was to provide a day of free entertainment to celebrate Camborne's links with Trevithick and celebrate the local industrial heritage.  All the main street are closed to traffic for the day, and the major components of the <b>annual Trevithick-Day</b> are as follows-<br> <br><ul> <li><b>Bal Maidens & Miners Dance</b><br></li> - led by miniature steam engines and Camborne Town Band, involving an average of eight schools and 240 children (maximum practical number for management) dressed in traditional costumes of miners and bal-maidens<br> <br> <li><b>Trevithick's Dance</b><br></li> - adults processional dance, led by a steam engine and Camborne Town Band<br> <br> <table> <tr> <td><img src="images/kerrier photos/tdance.jpg" width="138" height="210" border="0" alt="tdance.jpg - image taken from the slide photographed by Steve Tanner / Kerrier District Council"></td> <td><img src="images/kerrier photos/bmdance.jpg" width="354" height="210" border="0" alt="bmdance.jpg - image taken from the slide photographed by Steve Tanner / Kerrier District Council"></td> </tr> </table><br> <li><b>Indoor exhibitions</b><br></li> - i.e.  schools competition entries, Centenary Church Flower Festival, display on the life of Trevithick, model exhibition (trains, steam vehicles etc)<br> <br> <li><b>Static Displays</b><br></li> - of steam vehicles, fair organs, stationery engines, vintage vehicles, etc.<br> <br> <li><b>Free Street Entertainment</b><br><br> - e.g.  from locally based performers Climax Male Voice Choir, Fourlanes Choir, Camborne Town Band, and buskers, musicians, jugglers, theatre groups etc.<br><br></ul> <center><table> <tr> <td><img src="images/kerrier photos/bashstilt.jpg" width="309" height="210" border="0" alt="bashstilt.jpg - image taken from the slide photographed by Steve Tanner / Kerrier District Council"></td> <td><img src="images/kerrier photos/ministeam.jpg" width="91" height="210" border="0" alt="ministeam.jpg - image taken from the slide photographed by Steve Tanner / Kerrier District Council"></td> </tr> </table></center> <br> <li><b>The Annual Steam parade</b><br></li> - The engines will steam along Church Street, down Wellington Road and Trelawney Road, then up (Camborne Hill) Tehidy Road and back to Basset Road.<br><br></ul> <center><br><br> <img src="borders/hr.gif" width="560" height="1"></center> <a name="trevithick"></a> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" width="570"> <tr><td height="200" width="120" align="center" valign="middle"> <img src="images/ani/ctdani1.gif" width="220" alt="Camborne Trevithick-Day" height="120" border="0"></td> <td height="200" align="center" valign="middle"> <font class="HeadingTxt">  Richard Trevithick (1771-1833)  </font></td></tr> </table> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" width="570"> <tr><td colspan="2" width="570" align="center" valign="middle"> <font class="IntroTxt1"> <br>  <center> <a class="BigLink" href="#Patents"> List of Patents </a> <a class="BigLink" href="#Family"> Family history </a> <a class="BigLink" href="#KeyDates"> Key Dates </a> <br><br> Richard Trevithick (1771-1833) - a short biography<br> (original research by Marj Rowland) </center> <br><br> </font></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" width="570" align="left" valign="middle"> <font class="NormalTxt">  Richard Trevithick was born in a cottage a mile or so from Dolcoath Mine, where his father was a mine Captain. His curiosity about the engineering aspects of the mining area that he grew up in started at an early age, and this led to a career during which he pioneered the use of high pressure steam, and increased the efficiency of the engines used to pump water from the lower levels of Cornwall's tin and copper mines.<br> <br> Trevithick's inventive mind was never still - his ideas ranged from the first successful self-powered road vehicle, and a steam railway engine, to schemes for wreck salvage, land reclamation, mechanical refrigeration, agricultural machinery and for tunnelling under the Thames.<br> <br> Trevithick's career spanned the dawn of the industrial revolution, a time when Cornwall's engineering prowess was the envy of the world. Trevithick spent eleven years in South America, working for owners of silver mines.<br> <br> Richard Trevithick is buried in an unmarked grave at Dartford, Kent, where he was working when he died. Like many great men and women, Trevithick did not get the recognition he deserved during his lifetime. Indeed, his worth has only recently been recognised by many history books.<br> <br> He did not acquire riches either; any wealth that came Trevithick's way soon disappeared as he developed his next idea- one of his last ideas, for a competition for a memorial to the "Reform Bill", was for a thousand feet high cast iron column with an air operated lift to convey passengers up the inside!<br> <a name="Patents"></a> <center><br><br> <a class="BigLink" href="#trevithick"> Top </a> <a class="BigLink" href="#Family"> Family history </a> <a class="BigLink" href="#KeyDates"> Key Dates </a> <br><br></center> <center><font class="IntroTxtUl">List of Patents</font><br> </center><br> <font class="NormalTxtBldUl">1802</font><br> Construction of steam engines to drive steam carriages and other purposes (with Andrew Vivian)<br> <br> <font class="NormalTxtBldUl">1808</font><br> Machinery for towing, driving, or discharging ships or other vessels: steam tug (with Robert Dickinson)<br> <br> <font class="NormalTxtBldUl">1808</font><br> Stowing ships cargoes by means of packages: iron tanks (with Robert Dickinson)<br> <br> <font class="NormalTxtBldUl">1809</font><br> 1.Floating docks: 2. Iron ships for Ocean Service: 3. Iron Masts: 4. Bending Timber 5. Diagonal Framing for Ships: 6. Iron Buoys: 7. Steam Engines for General Ships Use: 8. Rowing Trunk: 9. Steam Cooking (with Robert Dickinson)<br> <br> <font class="NormalTxtBldUl">1810</font><br> New Applications to propel ships to aid the recovery of shipwrecks; to promote the health and comfort of the mariners and other useful purposes (with Robert Dickinson)<br> <br> <font class="NormalTxtBldUl">1815</font><br> High Pressure Steam Engine; and application to useful purposes<br> <br> <font class="NormalTxtBldUl">1815</font><br> 1. Plunger Pole Steam Engine: 2. Reaction Turbine: 3. High pressure steam acting on water which acts as a piston: 4. the water from 3. used in 2. as in a Barker's Mill: 5. Screw Propeller<br> <br> <font class="NormalTxtBldUl">1816</font><br> A New Apparatus for evaporating water from solutions of vegetable substances<br> <br> <font class="NormalTxtBldUl">1827</font><br> New Methods for centring ordnance on pivots: Facilitating the charge of the same: and reducing manual labour in time of action<br> <br> <font class="NormalTxtBldUl">1828</font><br> New Methods of discharging ships cargoes and other purposes<br> <br> <font class="NormalTxtBldUl">1829</font><br> A New or Improved Steam Engine<br> <br> <font class="NormalTxtBldUl">1831</font><br> 1. Boiler and Condenser: 2. Condenser in Air Vessel: 3. Surface Condenser: 4. Condensed water returned to Boiler: 5. Forced draught with hot air heated by condenser water<br> <br> <font class="NormalTxtBldUl">1831</font><br> A Portable Stove surrounded by water brought to boiling point<br> <br> <font class="NormalTxtBldUl">1832</font><br> Application of Steam Power to Navigation and Locomotion<br> 1. Super heater: 2. Cylinder kept in flue to be hotter than steam: 3. Jet Propulsion of Vessels: 4. Boiler and Super heater Applies to a Locomotive<br> <a name="Family"></a> <center><br><br> <a class="BigLink" href="#trevithick"> Top </a> <a class="BigLink" href="#Patents"> List of Patents </a> <a class="BigLink" href="#KeyDates"> Key Dates </a> <br><br></center> <center><font class="IntroTxtUl">Family History</font><br><br> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" border="0" width="472" bgcolor="#000000" valign="middle"> <tr><td><center> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" border="0" width="470" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <tr><td colspan="3"> <center><font class="NormalTxtBld">Richard Trevithick senior</font><font class="NormalTxt"> (1735-1797) (mine captain/engineer)<br> <font class="SmallTxt">married</font><br> <font class="NormalTxtBld">Ann Teague</font> (? - 1810) (mine captain's daughter)<br> </font><font class="SmallTxt"> They had eight children, (four died, two in the same year)</font><br></center> </td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> <font class="NormalTxt">Elizabeth<br> Ann<br> Prudence<br> Mary<br> <font class="NormalTxtBld">Richard</font><br> Sarah<br> Tamisen<br> Alexander</font> </td><td valign="top"> <font class="NormalTxt"> b.1761<br> b.1763<br> (1765-1775)<br> (1768-1790)<br> b.1771<br> (1775-1780)<br> b.1773<br> (1779-1790)</font></td> <td valign="top"><font class="NormalTxtIt"> (married John Tyack, Blacksmith)<br> (married William Edwards, Engineer)<br> <br> <br> (married Jane Harvey)<br> <br> (married Henry Vivian, gentleman)<br> <br></font></td></tr> </table></center></td></tr></table><br> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" border="0" width="472" valign="middle" bgcolor="#000000"><tr><td> <center> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" border="0" width="470" valign="middle" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <tr><td colspan="4"><center><font class="NormalTxtBld">Richard Trevithick</font><br> <font class="SmallTxt">married</font><br> <font class="NormalTxtBld">Jane Harvey</font><font class="normalTxt"> (father- John Harvey, Foundry owner)</font><br> <font class="SmallTxt">in 1797 when he was 26.<br> <br> Jane was born at Carnhell, Gwinear, on 25th June 1772, and was aged 25 when they married.<br> She died at Pencliffe, Hayle in 1868.<br> <br> Their six children were- <br> </td></tr> <tr> <td width="35"><font color="#FFFFFF">X</font></td><td width="200"> <font class="NormalTxt">Richard (1798-1872)<br> Anne (1800-1876)<br> Elizabeth (1803-1870)<br> John Harvey (1807-1877)<br> Francis (1812-1877)<br> Frederick Henry (1816-1881)</font> </td><td width="200"> <font class="NormalTxtIt"><br> (married Hannibal Ellis)<br> (married John Banfield)<br> (married Charlotte Stewart)<br> (married Mary Ewart)<br> (married Maria Garland)</font> </td><td width="35"><font color="#FFFFFF">X</font></td></tr> </center></table></td></tr></table> <br>(Francis Trevithick-Okuno, a former President of the Trevithick-Day Association, is a direct descendant of Richard and Jane Trevithick)</center> <a name="KeyDates"></a> <center><br><br> <a class="BigLink" href="#trevithick"> Top </a> <a class="BigLink" href="#Patents"> List of Patents </a> <a class="BigLink" href="#Family"> Family history </a> <br><br></center> <center><font class="IntroTxtUl">Key Dates</font><br><br> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" border="0" width="472" bgcolor="#000000"><tr><td><center> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" border="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="470"> <tr><td valign="top" width="25"><font class="NormalTxt">1769</font></td><td valign="top" width="445"><font class="NormalTxt"> James Watt's separate condenser patent Cugnot's steam carriage<br>(in France)</font> </td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" border="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="470"> <tr><td valign="top" width="25"><font class="NormalTxtBld">1771</font></td><td valign="top" width="445"><font class="NormalTxtBld">Richard Trevithick born 13th April</font> </td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" border="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="470"> <tr><td valign="top" width="25"><font class="NormalTxt">1777</font></td><td valign="top" width="445"><font class="NormalTxt"> Boulton & Watt's separate condenser engine introduced to Cornwall<br> Abraham Derby began casting his "Iron Bridge"</font> </td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" border="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="470"> <tr><td valign="top" width="25"><font class="NormalTxt">1781</font></td><td valign="top" width="445"><font class="NormalTxt"> Hornblower's patent</font> </td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" border="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="470"> <tr><td valign="top" width="25"><font class="NormalTxt">1784</font></td><td valign="top" width="445"><font class="NormalTxt"> Murdoch's model locomotive in Redruth<br> James Sadler, Oxford, makes ascent in a hot air balloon</font> </td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" border="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="470"> <tr><td valign="top" width="25"><font class="NormalTxt">1787</font></td><td valign="top" width="445"><font class="NormalTxt"> Symmington exhibited a model steam carriage in Edinburgh</font> </td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" border="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="470"> <tr><td valign="top" width="25"><font class="NormalTxt">1789</font></td><td valign="top" width="445"><font class="NormalTxt"> Riots in Redruth, Camborne<br> Wesley preaches in the area, reputed to have stayed with Trevithick's father who was a Methodist Leader</font> </td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" border="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="470"> <tr><td valign="top" width="25"><font class="NormalTxt">1790</font></td><td valign="top" width="445"><font class="NormalTxt"> Trevithick becomes engineer at Stray Park Mine<br> J. Hornblower and A. Woolfe (mine engineers) help Francis Basset put in a "water-closet" at his house at Tehidy</font> </td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" border="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="470"> <tr><td valign="top" width="25"><font class="NormalTxt">1792</font></td><td valign="top" width="445"><font class="NormalTxt"> Trevithick reports on performance of Tincroft Mine engine<br> Mary Wollanscroft publishes "Vindication of the Rights of Women"</font> </td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" border="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="470"> <tr><td valign="top" width="25"><font class="NormalTxt">1793</font></td><td valign="top" width="445"><font class="NormalTxt"> War with France</font> </td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" border="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="470"> <tr><td valign="top" width="25"><font class="NormalTxt">1796</font></td><td valign="top" width="445"><font class="NormalTxt"> Trevithick meets Davies Giddy (Gilbert), who becomes a mentor<br> Boulton & Watt open Soho Foundry at Smethwick<br> Edward Bull and Trevithick visit Soho Foundry<br> Trevithick expresses interest in work for the Soho Foundry<br> Trevithick visits Coalbrookdale Foundry<br> Francis Basset puts down Food Riots in Redruth</font> </td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" border="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="470"> <tr><td valign="top" width="25"><font class="NormalTxt">1797</font></td><td valign="top" width="445"><font class="NormalTxt"> William West (Trevithick's colleague and brother-in-law) makes model engines to show in Cornish Engineers v Boulton & Watt court case about restrictive patents and business practise<br> Trevithick refuses terms offered by Soho Foundry to put up engines<br> Richard Trevithick Senior dies<br> Richard Trevithick marries Jane Harvey<br> - they go to live at Moreton House, Plain an Gwarry, Redruth<br></font> </td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" border="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="470"> <tr><td valign="top" width="25"><font class="NormalTxt">1798</font></td><td valign="top" width="445"><font class="NormalTxt"> First high-pressure "puffers" built by Trevithick<br> Jane & Richard move to Camborne Churchtown<br> Lady Basset sees Trevithick's model of a road locomotive run in the kitchen of Trevithick's home<br> Richard Trevithick (son) born</font> </td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" border="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="470"> <tr><td valign="top" width="25"><font class="NormalTxt">1799</font></td><td valign="top" width="445"><font class="NormalTxt"> Humphry Davey discovers laughing gas (Penzance)</font> </td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" border="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="470"> <tr><td valign="top" width="25"><font class="NormalTxt">1800</font></td><td valign="top" width="445"><font class="NormalTxt"> Expiry of Watt patent<br> Anne Trevithick (daughter) born</font> </td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" border="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="470"> <tr><td valign="top" width="25"><font class="NormalTxt">1801</font></td><td valign="top" width="445"><font class="NormalTxt"> Trevithick's creation of Camborne Road Locomotive<br> Francis Basset starts Camborne Market House & Clock Tower</font> </td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" border="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="470"> <tr><td valign="top" width="25"><font class="NormalTxt">1802</font></td><td valign="top" width="445"><font class="NormalTxt"> Elizabeth Trevithick (daughter) born</font> </td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" border="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="470"> <tr><td valign="top" width="25"><font class="NormalTxt">1803</font></td><td valign="top" width="445"><font class="NormalTxt"> Trevithick's London Road Locomotive<br> High Pressure Boiler explosion at Greenwich</font> </td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" border="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="470"> <tr><td valign="top" width="25"><font class="NormalTxt">1804</font></td><td valign="top" width="445"><font class="NormalTxt"> Trevithick's Pennydaren Locomotive<br> Frances Basset (Lord DeDunstanville) forms troop of Cornish<br> Volunteers in case of invasion by Napoleon</font> </td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" border="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="470"> <tr><td valign="top" width="25"><font class="NormalTxt">1805</font></td><td valign="top" width="445"><font class="NormalTxt"> Newcastle-upon-Tyne locomotive built to Trevithick's instructions<br> -drives barge by steam engine & paddle wheels</font> </td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" border="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="470"> <tr><td valign="top" width="25"><font class="NormalTxt">1806</font></td><td valign="top" width="445"><font class="NormalTxt"> Trevithick's Steam-dredger used on the Thames<br> John Harvey Trevithick (son) born</font> </td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" border="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="470"> <tr><td valign="top" width="25"><font class="NormalTxt">1807</font></td><td valign="top" width="445"><font class="NormalTxt"> Trevithick appointed Engineer to Thames Archway Company</font> </td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" border="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="470"> <tr><td valign="top" width="25"><font class="NormalTxt">1808</font></td><td valign="top" width="445"><font class="NormalTxt"> Jane and children join Richard in London<br> Trevithick's "Catch me who Can" circular track steam train at Euston</font> </td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" border="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="470"> <tr><td valign="top" width="25"><font class="NormalTxt">1809</font></td><td valign="top" width="445"><font class="NormalTxt"> Trevithick raises a sunken ship off Margate<br> Williams family build Portreath Tramway</font> </td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" border="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="470"> <tr><td valign="top" width="25"><font class="NormalTxt">1810</font></td><td valign="top" width="445"><font class="NormalTxt"> Trevithick contracts Typhus and returns to Cornwall (treated by Dr Rosewarne)<br> His mother dies- takes his family to live at her property in Penponds</font> </td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" border="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="470"> <tr><td valign="top" width="25"><font class="NormalTxt">1811</font></td><td valign="top" width="445"><font class="NormalTxt"> Trevithick declared bankrupt<br> Trevithick installs first Cornish Engine & Boiler: Plunger Pole engine</font> </td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" border="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="470"> <tr><td valign="top" width="25"><font class="NormalTxt">1812</font></td><td valign="top" width="445"><font class="NormalTxt"> Trevithick applies high pressure engine to agricultural machinery & creates a rock-boring machine for Plymouth Breakwater & Screw Propeller<br> Luddites attack machinery in Midlands<br> Francis Trevithick (son) born</font> </td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" border="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="470"> <tr><td valign="top" width="25"><font class="NormalTxt">1813</font></td><td valign="top" width="445"><font class="NormalTxt"> Uville arrives to see Trevithick from Peru</font> </td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" border="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="470"> <tr><td valign="top" width="25"><font class="NormalTxt">1814</font></td><td valign="top" width="445"><font class="NormalTxt"> Trevithick arranges for 9 engines to be shipped to Peru</font> </td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" border="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="470"> <tr><td valign="top" width="25"><font class="NormalTxt">1815</font></td><td valign="top" width="445"><font class="NormalTxt"> Humphry Davy invents miners safety lamp</font> </td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" border="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="470"> <tr><td valign="top"><font class="NormalTxt">1816</font></td><td valign="top" width="445"><font class="NormalTxt"> Frederick Henry Trevithick (son) born<br> Trevithick sails for Peru<br> - rents house for family in Penzance, but Jane goes to Hayle, becoming landlady of the White Hart Inn</font> </td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" border="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="470"> <tr><td valign="top" width="25"><font class="NormalTxt">1821</font></td><td valign="top" width="445"><font class="NormalTxt"> Trevithick works to salvage ships cargo near Callao</font> </td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" border="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="470"> <tr><td valign="top" width="25"><font class="NormalTxt">1823</font></td><td valign="top" width="445"><font class="NormalTxt"> The explorer, Gurnard, meets Trevithick in Ecudor</font> </td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" border="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="470"> <tr><td valign="top" width="25"><font class="NormalTxt">1825</font></td><td valign="top" width="445"><font class="NormalTxt"> Brunel begins his Thames Tunnel </font> </td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" border="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="470"> <tr><td valign="top" width="25"><font class="NormalTxt">1827</font></td><td valign="top" width="445"><font class="NormalTxt"> Trevithick arrives in Cartagena after pioneer crossing of Isthmus of Nicaragua with Gurnard<br> Civil war in South America - Trevithick creates recoil gun carriage for Bolivar<br> Robert Stephenson meets Trevithick and lends him his fare home to Britain</font> </td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" border="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="470"> <tr><td valign="top" width="25"><font class="NormalTxt">1828</font></td><td valign="top" width="445"><font class="NormalTxt"> Trevithick visits Holland, engine & pump made in Hayle for Zyder Zee</font> </td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" border="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="470"> <tr><td valign="top" width="25"><font class="NormalTxt">1829</font></td><td valign="top" width="445"><font class="NormalTxt"> Robert Stephenson's Rocket wins the Rainhill Trials</font> </td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" border="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="470"> <tr><td valign="top" width="25"><font class="NormalTxt">1831</font></td><td valign="top" width="445"><font class="NormalTxt"> William Bickford invents the safety fuse (Tuckingmill, Camborne)</font> </td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" border="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="470"> <tr><td valign="top" width="25"><font class="NormalTxt">1832</font></td><td valign="top" width="445"><font class="NormalTxt"> Trevithick designs Reform Bill column</font> </td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" border="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="470"> <tr><td valign="top" width="25"><font class="NormalTxt">1833</font></td><td valign="top" width="445"><font class="NormalTxt"> William Cobbet's bill to reduce working hours of children defeated</font> </td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" border="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="470"> <tr><td valign="top" width="25"><font class="NormalTxtBld">1833</font></td><td valign="top" width="445"><font 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